Definitions
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- adjective of a flower tipped with yellow
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Examples
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And so, we walk—past the lake, honking geese, and yellow-tipped oaks.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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And so, we walk—past the lake, honking geese, and yellow-tipped oaks.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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One day, I went into a pet shop to get her some food, and there was this precious little yellow-tipped umbrella cockatoo named Dixie.
It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ Paula Deen 2007
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One day, I went into a pet shop to get her some food, and there was this precious little yellow-tipped umbrella cockatoo named Dixie.
It Ain’t All About the Cookin’ Paula Deen 2007
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She did notice a good lot of bluish, evil-smelling smoke coming from about the bearings between his feet, but she thought this was one of the natural concomitants of motor-traction, and troubled no more about it, until abruptly it burst into a little yellow-tipped flame.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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The phrase “design inference” seemed to me to be hollow–because my tomato plants are wilted and have yellow-tipped leaves, I infer/deduce from previous experience that a frost hit them.
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He wore a second-hand uniform coat on which his mother had sewn loops of tarnished gold lace, then turned up the yellow-tipped sleeves so they did not fall down over his hands.
Sharpe's Christmas Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2003
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He wore a second-hand uniform coat on which his mother had sewn loops of tarnished gold lace, then turned up the yellow-tipped sleeves so they did not fall down over his hands.
Sharpe's Christmas Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2003
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Here “green grow the rushes,” especially the big-headed Kasbá (Arundo donax); the yellow-tipped
The Land of Midian 2003
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It also has a yellow-tipped protuberance growing on the crown between the eyes.
5 Chicken 1991
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